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2002.M.16
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Title: Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian collection
Creator:
Helbig, Wolfgang, 1839-1915
Creator:
Johnston-Lavis, Henry James
Creator:
Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836
Creator:
García y García, Laurentino
Creator:
Pais, Ettore, 1856-1939
Creator:
Kelsey, Francis W. (Francis Willey), 1858-1927
Creator:
Murray, Margaret Alice
Creator:
Mazois, François, 1783-1826
Creator:
House, John
Creator:
Maiuri, Amedeo, 1886-1963
Creator:
Warsher, Tatiana
Creator:
Barré, Louis, 1799-1857
Creator:
Spinazzola, Vittorio
Creator:
Barnabei, Felice, 1842-1922
Creator:
Soprano, Pietro
Creator:
Aldanov, Mark Aleksandrovich, 1886-1957
Creator:
Scifoni, Guido
Creator:
Hase, Friedrich-Wilhelm von
Creator:
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896
Creator:
Fiorelli, Giuseppe, 1823-1895
Creator:
Della Valle, Guido, 1884-
Creator:
Della Corte, Matteo
Creator:
Berberova, N. (Nina)
Creator:
Zahn, Wilhelm, 1800-1871
Creator:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778
Creator:
Rossini, Luigi, 1790-1857
Creator:
Niccolini, Fausto, 1812?-1886
Creator:
Niccolini, Felice, 1816?-
Creator:
Nowotny, Eduard
Creator:
Onorato, Giovanni Oscar
Creator:
Mau, August, 1840-1909
Creator:
Minto, Antonio
Creator:
Korsak, V.
Creator:
La Porta, Armando
Creator:
Labruzzi, Carlo, approximately 1765-1818
Creator:
Warsher, Tatiana
Creator:
Waele, Jos de
Creator:
Vander Poel, Halsted B.
Creator:
Van Buren, A. W. (Albert William), 1878-1961
Creator:
Ternite, Wilhelm, 1786-1871
Creator:
Roux, Henri, active 19th century
Creator:
Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch, 1870-1952
Creator:
Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914
Identifier/Call Number: 2002.M.16
Physical Description:
643 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): circa 1570-1997
Abstract: The Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian collection is an archive devoted to the historiography of
archaeological investigations conducted around the Bay of Naples, with particular emphasis on Pompeii. Comprised of manuscripts,
photographs, maps,
plans, drawings and the papers of Matteo Della Corte and Tatiana Warscher, it is a comprehensive resource for researching
the excavations at Pompeii and
the surrounding area.
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Language of Material: English
Language of Material: Collection material is in English, Italian, French, German, and Russian.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Vander Poel Campanian collection is a research archive assembled for the study of the history of the excavations at Pompeii
and to a lesser extent,
at Herculaneum and Stabiae. It represents the culmination of forty years of investigations by Vander Poel. He collected rare
books, prints, photographs,
maps and other original documents. He preserved the papers of Matteo Della Corte and Tatiana Warscher, left to him as bequests
upon their deaths. He
sponsored excavations and commissioned mapping and photography of the site. He funded and led a research team known as the
Research in Campanian
Archaeology (RICA) Group. His numerous projects, many still in the planning stages, included the production and distribution
of the
Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum, a multi-volume work on the history of the excavations at Pompeii; the production of updated editions of
important research texts; and documentation of the Pompeian material in the Archaeological Museum at Naples.
Until recently, the excavations at Pompeii have been poorly documented and the documentation that does exist has been dispersed
throughout various
European depositories and private collections. Within this documentation, there is conflicting nomenclature and enumeration
of locations. Vander Poel's
contribution to scholarship through the creation of his Campanian collection was the important, if not glamorous, task of
collecting this dispersed
information and supervising the creation of tools, ranging from concordances of house numbers to new maps of the site, which
facilitate the study of
Pompeii.
This assembling of resources for the study of Pompeii accounts for the extremely broad date range of the collection. Vander
Poel worked on his
Campanian projects and collected the material in the period roughly from 1958 to 1997. The broad date range of the collection,
circa 1570-1997, reflects
the dates of the materials, both original works and reproductions, within it.
The highlights of the Campanian collection include Matteo Della Corte's field notes, Tatiana Warscher's photographic documentation
of Pompeii, the
unpublished notes of Vander Poel's excavations of the Casa di Meleagro, manuscripts of the unpublished portions of the
Corpus
Topographicum Pompeianum
, and the extensive scholarly documentation, both textual and visual, of Pompeii assembled by Vander Poel.
Throughout this finding aid, all photographic prints and negatives are black-and-white, unless indicated as color. The house
numbering used in the
finding aid follows the current system of numeration for the site of Pompeii, see Andrew Wallace-Hadrill,
Houses and Society in Pompeii and
Herculaneum
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), xix. The journal abbreviations are those standardly used in the field of classical
archaeology. A list of journal abbreviations and full bibliographic citations for works cited briefly in the finding aid are
to be found in Laurentino
García y García,
Nova Bibliotheca Pompeiana: 250 anni di bibliografia archeologica (Rome: Bardi, 1998).
The collection is arranged in ten series: Series I. Matteo Della Corte papers, 1890-1997 Series II. Tatiana Warscher papers,
1912-1997 Series III.
Vander Poel excavations at Pompeii, 1958-1982 Series IV.
Corpus Topographicum Pompeianum production materials, 1776-1996
Series V. New editions of early archaeological publications on Pompeii, 1796-1989 Series VI. Documentation of objects in the
Museo archeologico
nazionale di Napoli, 1960-1971 Series VII. Research in Campanian Archaeology (RICA) research materials, 1724-1996 Series VIII.
Objects in the Campanian
collection, 1960-1977 Series IX. Administrative materials, 1980-1992 Series X. Non-Campanian material, 1570-1996.
Biographical / Historical Note
Halsted Billings Vander Poel (variant form VanderPoel) was born in 1911 at the family estate in New York City. He graduated
from Yale University with a
Bachelor of Science degree in 1935 and then served in the Navy in World War II. After the war, he married, moved to Washington,
D.C. and worked in the
Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
While still at Yale, Vander Poel developed a strong interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English literature and
soon began collecting books
and manuscripts. Vander Poel quickly became established as a serious collector, and broadened his range to include Old Master
paintings, American
portraits and English furniture and silver.
In 1956, Vander Poel moved to Rome. There he was involved in various cultural and educational projects, including the restoration
of frescoes in Roman
churches, and the administration of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House at the Spanish Steps. In 1964, he was one of the founders
of St. Stephen's School,
an American preparatory school in Rome.
In Rome, Vander Poel met two archaeologists, Matteo Della Corte, a former Director of Excavations at Pompeii, and Tatiana
Warscher, a leading
historiographer of the site, and through them became fascinated with Pompeii. For the next forty years, Vander Poel devoted
considerable time and
financial resources to creating an extensive research library and archive on the archaeological investigations in Pompeii.
In 1997 Vander Poel returned to the United States for health reasons. He died in Washington D.C. on June 27, 2003.
Over 1,000 books and individual periodical issues from the collection were separated to the library. A search using the phrase
"VanderPoel" while
selecting the index "Provenance" from the pull-down menu in the Getty online library catalog will retrieve a list of these
separated materials, as well
as the Vander Poel collection-level record and records for books remaining in the archive. Similar searches using "Della Corte"
and "Warsher" in the
Provenance index will retrieve books from these scholars' libraries.
Ann Harrison rehoused the collection and created the series arrangement and finding aid in 2006.
The collection was donated by Halsted B. Vander Poel in 2002.
Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian Collection, circa 1570-1997, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2002.M.16
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2002m16
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Clippings (information artifacts)
Offprints
Notes
Photocopies
Photobooks
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Plans (drawings)
Photomosaic maps
Manuscripts for publication
Lantern slides
Medals
Maps
Negatives (Photographs)
Microfilms
Notebooks
Newsletters
Watercolors (paintings)
Translations
Typescripts
Postcards
Prints (visual works)
Plans (maps)
Audiotapes
Sculpture (visual work)
Tracings
Proofs (printed matter)
Reprographic copies
Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Gravina di Puglia (Italy)
Volcanoes Italy
Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli
Mural painting and decoration, Roman -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
Mosaics, Roman -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
Inscriptions, Latin
Drawings (visual works)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Stabiae (Extinct city)
Correspondence
Copy prints
Concordances
Color slides
Certificates
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Bibliography
Indexes (reference sources)
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Photographs
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Discovery and exploration
Vesuvius (Italy)
Stabiae (Extinct city)
Aerial photographs
Address books
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
Architecture, Roman -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Gravina di Puglia Region
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Architecture, Domestic -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Antiquities
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- Aerial photographs
Hase, Friedrich-Wilhelm von
Fiorelli, Giuseppe, 1823-1895
Johnston-Lavis, Henry James
Helbig, Wolfgang, 1839-1915
Della Corte, Matteo
Pais, Ettore, 1856-1939
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942
Mazois, François, 1783-1826
Murray, Margaret Alice
Maiuri, Amedeo, 1886-1963
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768
Warsher, Tatiana
Spinazzola, Vittorio
Soprano, Pietro
Scifoni, Guido